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From: othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4))
Subject: Shared lib X for 386bsd?
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I've installed Joergs' Shared lib for /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin for 
those small programs that benefit the most. The bigger programs do not 
benefit much.

I tried to compile X utilities especially xterm but I cannot even find the
sources despite having the X11r5 distribution. Which directory does 
xterm belong to? 

I'm cross-posting to comp.os.linux because there are a lot of misunderstanding
about 386bsd there.

I'm not against linux because it serves a niche market or use. Also as
back up. 386bsd is much bigger and moves in different directions but it
does not prevent people from porting lessons learned in linux to 386bsd.
Joerg's shared lib is one of them.
	shared lib is not for everyone. It creates a lot of problems. I need
it for a small system but I have lot of problems installing it but it may be
worth installing the x utilities.
	From my benchmark the shared lib versions are slower than the 
unshared ones. Maybe it has to jump further?

This is my unshared X directory. 
the X server does not need 3 megabytes.

-rwsr-xr-x    2 root      1025428 Sep 30 21:52 X
-rwsr-xr-x    2 root      1025428 Sep 30 21:52 X386
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       393216 Sep 30 21:52 appres
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        24576 Sep 30 21:53 atobm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        53248 Sep 30 21:50 bdftopcf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       598016 Sep 30 21:53 bitmap
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        28672 Sep 30 21:53 bmtoa
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       937984 Sep 17 03:45 clock
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       577536 Sep 30 21:53 editres
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        45056 Sep 30 21:51 fsinfo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        49152 Sep 30 21:51 fslsfonts
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       106496 Sep 30 21:51 fstobdf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       172032 Sep 30 21:57 ico
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        32768 Sep 30 21:48 imake
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        24576 Sep 30 21:52 kbd_mode
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       577536 Sep 30 21:53 listres
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root         1541 Sep 30 21:58 lndir
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        32768 Sep 30 21:58 makedepend
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       118784 Sep 30 21:57 maze
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root          912 Sep 30 21:58 mkdirhier
-rwxr-xr-x  
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       122880 Sep 30 21:55 xkill
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root       446464 Sep 30 21:55 xload
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       434176 Sep 30 21:55 xlogo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        94208 Sep 30 21:55 xlsatoms
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root        98304 Sep 30 21:55 xlsclients
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       176128 Sep 30 21:55 xlsfonts
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       475136 Sep 30 21:55 xmag
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       569344 Sep 30 21:55 xman
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       593920 Sep 30 21:55 xmh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root          972 Sep 30 21:58 xmkmf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       131072 Sep 30 21:56 xmodmap
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root         1805 Sep 30 21:58 xon
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       159744 Sep 30 21:56 xpr
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       159744 Sep 30 21:56 xprop
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       110592 Sep 30 21:56 xrdb
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       155648 Sep 30 21:56 xrefresh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       143360 Sep 30 21:56 xset
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       151552 Sep 30 21:56 xsetroot
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       139264 Sep 30 21:56 xstdcmap
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root       565248 Sep 30 21:57 xterm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       151552 Sep 30 21:57 xwd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       163840 Sep 30 21:57 xwininfo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root       159744 Sep 30 21:57 xwud


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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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